Mike and Mike, who are the only ESPN radio personalities I enjoy listening to, will be hosting the 6:00 PM Sportscenter tonight.

I was planning on Live-Blogging an episode of Baseball Tonight or something like that, but when I found out Mike and Mike were hosting Sportscenter, I thought blogging this would be better. Keep refreshing for updates!

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• 5:26 - About 30 minutes until its time for me to get my live blog started. By using my trusty remote, I have discovered that the Sportscenter is going to be of the hour and a half variety. This should be real interesting seeing how these two guys are going to work out. The way that ESPN has been advertising this, it sounds like an experiment, that if it works, they want to be a permanent thing. Greenberg has done it before, but not Golic. I wonder how he’s going to handle writing his own material, and the format. I mean Mike and Mike work together for four hours a day, but thats with about 37 commercial breaks per hour.
• 5:55 – A little Sportscenter tease. Mike and Mike in the Evening…nice.
• 6:00 – And here we go…They start out with a nice little radio banter. Works for the intro, but I don’t know if it would work a whole 1.5 hours.
• 6:02 - When ESPN shows clips of the dirty ref, they always show him arguing with some player. I think thats funny.
• 6:04- Pretty good poll question. Which sports commish would you least like to be? I would have to say NBA, inside sports betting is not a good problem to have.
• 6:05 - Kruckie and Golic in the same SC split screen. Im glad I got HDTV, or I don’t think I would be able to see them both.
• 6:07 - We are seven minutes into it, and this still has a Mike & Mike in the Morning feel to it. If it weren’t for the big SC in the background, I wouldn’t think its SportsCenter.
• 6:15 – Hey! Its a highlight. And only 15 minutes in…
• 6:16 - Sometimes banter back and forth during highlights is good. But they are discussing the highlights. 1/6th of the way through, too radio-ey for me.
• 6:21 - I was listening to Mike & Mike on the way to work (No…I don’t blog for a living) and I heard this same discussion almost word for word. I kinda wish I wasn’t live-blogging this, because I would turn this off.
• 6:24 - Here we go, SportsCenter kind of stuff. But with Golic doing it, it just doesn’t sound right.
• 6:25 - Mike Golic yelling on the radio cheeky & fun…Mike Golic yelling on SportsCenter, rather annoying.
• 6:27 - As we are at a commercial break, I think you guys can tell from what I am writing that I am not enjoying this. It seems like Greenberg is interviewing Golic for a segment or something, the exchange they are having is not the exchange that SportsCenter anchors are supposed to have. This wasn’t supposed to be an ESPN/Sportscenter bash thread, but I guess it’s turning into that huh?
• 6:30 - Mike & Mike clips…why? I have no idea.
• 6:31 - Aaaaaah! The motive has been discovered. This is just a big plug for Mike & Mike in the Morning.
• 6:32 - More plugs DURING SportsCenter Awesome…
• 6:34 - Let me reiterate. Mike Golic dancing on Mike and Mike in the Morning…cheeky and fun. Mike Golic dancing on Sportscenter, rather annoying.
• 6:35 - Lee Corso in here to save the day. Please keep him here the rest of the show.
• 6:39 - Hey! Highlight #2 of tonights SportsCenter. Thats two every twenty minutes…awesome.
• 6:40 - David Beckham is so God Damn Dreamy.
• 6:42 - Sweet Who’s Now is coming up. I am looking forward to it, thats how disgustingly bad this SportsCenter is so far.
• 6:48 - This is getting worse and worse. From bad Sportcenter, to even worse Who’s Now.
• 6:49 - I love how they try to emphasize the number of voters. If you think of it though, 150,000 voters is not a lot compared to how many people watch SportsCenter. At least that’s what I think.
• 6:50 – We can’t get away from Greenberg, he is involved in Who’s Now…wearing different clothes. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?!
• 6:52 - Now tell me, does this happen during normal 6 PM SportsCenter. Showing clips of Mike & Mike.
• 6:54 - Who’s now beef, with Kirk Herbsteet dissing Greenberg’s hairstyle. Maybe that will get more people interested in Who’s Now. Yeah…suuuuure. I can’t believe I am typing this.
• 6:55 - We get it, Golic’s fat. You don’t have to show him eating food during SportsCenter.
• 6:56 - Commercial break #3 or 4 I don’t really remember. OK, I just want it to be know that I like ESPN, I am feeling like I am bashing it way too much right now. I am going to play a new game, pick out the good things during this episode of SportsCenter. Wish me luck!
• 7:00 - Good things…good things…good things…uhhh Mike Golic is dressed nicely…
• 7:03 - More Mike & Mike plugs. And wait a minute? Shouldn’t there be a baseball analysis doing Diamond Cutters. Oh whoops…good things…the graphics look pretty.
• 7:07 - I just wanted to say a quick little R.I.P. for the coach that died last night, a terrible, freak accident.
• 7:12 - Who’s Now…time for my bathroom break.
• 7:16 - OK back from the bathroom…what? I missed who’s now? Damn!
• 7:17 - Golic looses the jacket. I think this is unprecedented for SportsCenter. It looks funny.
• 7:19 – That block by LBJ was simply amazing.
• 7:25 - Please don’t let them mess up the top 10.
• 7:30 - Thank God the top 10 went without incident.
• 7:30 - So there you have it. A failed experiment, but you can’t blame ESPN for trying. I guess these guys were just meant for the radio…

Ok, now lets hope what just happened never happens again.  I was like watching a 2 minute car crash 45 times over.